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Install xapian in a virtualenv on Mac OS X using Homebrew.
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install xapian inside virtualenv
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
apt-get install g++
export VENV=$VIRTUAL_ENV
mkdir $VENV/packages && cd $VENV/packages
curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.16/xapian-core-1.0.16.tar.gz
curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.16/xapian-bindings-1.0.16.tar.gz
tar xzvf xapian-core-1.0.16.tar.gz
tar xzvf xapian-bindings-1.0.16.tar.gz
cd $VENV/packages/xapian-core-1.0.16
./configure --prefix=$VENV && make && make install
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VENV/lib
cd $VENV/packages/xapian-bindings-1.0.16
./configure --prefix=$VENV --with-python && make && make install
python -c "import xapian"
@nffdiogosilva
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Thanks a lot! This help me a lot. I was having a hard time configuring the xapian inside a virtualenv ;)

@elhachimi
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Thanks, it's working but had to replace line 24 with :
cd $VENV/packages/xapian-bindings-*

@renejesusgv
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In my case I had to replace line 22 with:
tar xzvf $(ls $(brew --cache)/xapian-*)

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